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chauffeur

[ shoh-fer, shoh-fur ]

noun

  1. a person employed to drive a private automobile or limousine for the owner.
  2. a person employed to drive a car or limousine that transports paying passengers.


verb (used with object)

  1. to drive (a vehicle) as a chauffeur.
  2. to transport by car:

    Saturday mornings I have to chauffeur the kids to their music lessons.

verb (used without object)

  1. to work as a chauffeur:

    He chauffeured for a time right after the war.

chauffeur

/ ˈʃəʊfə; ʃəʊˈfɜːz; ʃəʊˈfɜː /

noun

  1. a person employed to drive a car
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to act as driver for (a person)

    he chauffeured me to the stadium

    he chauffeurs for the Duke

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • chauffeuse, noun:feminine
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Other Words From

  • un·chauffeured adjective
  • well-chauffeured adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of chauffeur1

1895–1900; < French, equivalent to chauff(er ) to heat ( chafe ) + -eur -eur
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Word History and Origins

Origin of chauffeur1

C20: from French, literally: stoker, from chauffer to heat
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Example Sentences

Gray, whose portfolio includes sport, has been under fire after it emerged he had been chauffeured to six football matches at Hampden since becoming a minister, four of which included the team he supports.

From BBC

The Dons fan was driven by a chauffeur to watch three games at Hampden, as well as a home match.

From BBC

She said Mr McGregor collected her and a friend from the salon in a chauffeured car to go to another party.

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He visited construction sites driven in his father’s Cadillac by a Black chauffeur and accompanied his father on visits to building managers of Trump rental properties.

From Salon

“I remember being driven in a chauffeured limousine through the incredibly impressive entrance gates to Barrow Green Court and the long driveway up to a massive brick house,” she says.

From BBC

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